Ira. Wow.

Ergon has been a supporter of No Drive for some time now and today I got an email from Jeff Kerkove with a video of the World Champion and Ergon Pro rider Irina Kalentieva, called Race Day. Two words.

Ira. Wow.

Race Day from ergon on Vimeo.

Around the GR

In the last week or two, there have been some very exciting things happening for the cycling community of the Grand Rapids Area.

The first was the announcement of new mountain bike trails being built up in the middle of the city! Granted I'm a bit more excited about these seeing that they are being built up very close to the Burns House [ie mi casa] and that I hate driving to ride my bike. Either way a group of people, who I'm assuming are part of the group that have brought BMX racing back to the city, are now turning the area surrounding the track into a full park, simply called GR Bike Park. It hopes to have a trail open by this fall! Exciting news!

Secondly, a fellow GR-ian, cyclist and blogger over at PedalGR.com, Josh Duggan, who has been one of the best advocates for cycling in the area has not only been breaking the news of new trails being built but also part of the newly formed Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition. He writes about the Coalition here and better explains the goals of the group, which we hope No Drive can do whatever we can to help achieve a growing standing for Grand Rapids as a Bicycle Friendly Community.

Good Stuff! For all you outside of the Western Michigan here's a video from you posted by the Ergon twitter feed earlier today, you know how we love Ergon! Maybe we could get an urban endurance race going on in GR next summer? An Urban C-Series event? We'll see...

... in a half shell...

So what do you do when you need to take a wheel into work with you and you're riding on a bike? Use a Ergon BD2 pack of course! Sure, I would have rather seen how a BC3 would handle the load since the BD2 is ideally used for other applications. But since I have yet to get my mitts on one of those, the BD2 worked like a champ!


The wheel stayed solid in place although I had my normal shop gear in the bag and did not hinder anything. The versatility of this bag just continues to amaze me. Plus, I guess any time I can have the TMNT theme song running through my head on my commute into the shop is a good thing...



Shredder got nothing on me... TURTLE POWER!